A DEADLY PARALLEL THIS IS THE WAY GERMANY TALKS | THIS IS WHAT THE SCOUT TO YOUNG BOYS OF SCOUT AGE | ORGANIZATION TEACHES AMERICAN | BOYS | | From the "Handbook for Boys," | 17th edition, page 454. | "War is the noblest and | "The movement is one for holiest expression of human | efficiency and patriotism. It activity. For us, too, the | does not try to make soldiers glad great hour of battle | of boy scouts, but to make will strike. Still and deep | boys who will turn out as men in the German heart must live | to be fine citizens, and who the joy of battle and the | will if their country needs longing for it. Let us | them make better soldiers for ridicule to the utmost the | having been scouts. No one old women in breeches who | can be a good American unless fear war and deplore it as | he is a good citizen, and cruel and revolting. No; war | every boy ought to train is beautiful. Its august | himself so that as a man he sublimity elevates the human | will be able to do his full heart beyond the earthly and | duty to the community. I want the common. In the cloud | to see the boy scouts not palace above sit the heroes, | merely utter fine sentiments, Frederick the Great and | but act on them, not merely Blucher and all the men of | sing 'My Country, 'Tis of action--the Great Emperor, | Thee,' but act in a way that Moltke, Roon, Bismarck are | will give them a country to there as well, but not the | be proud of. No man is a good old women who would take away | citizen unless he so acts as our joy in war. When here on | to show that he actually uses earth a battle is won by | the Ten Commandments, and German arms and the faithful | translates the Golden Rule dead ascend to Heaven, a | into his life conduct--and I Potsdam lance corporal will | don't mean by this call the guard to the door | exceptional cases under and 'Old Fritz' (Frederick | spectacular circumstances, the Great), springing from | but I mean applying the Ten his golden throne, will give | Commandments and the Golden the command to present arms. | Rule in the ordinary affairs That is the Heaven of Young | of everyday life. I hope the Germany. | boy scouts will practice | truth and square dealing and "Because only in war all the | courage and honesty, so that virtues which militarism | when as young men they begin regards highly are given a | taking a part not only in chance to unfold, because | earning their own livelihood,